Iron County register., 1887-04-28
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

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AN explosion occurred at Merritt's Cor
ners, N. Y, on the 10th, at shaft 2, new
aqueduct. in the north heading. John
Coyne was instantly killed. A Hunga-
rian, name unknown, was fatally injured.
Five others were hurt, some with broken
legs and arms and eyes blown out.
THE barn of John Griff1ths, four miles
south OF Baileyville, Kas., was burned on
the night of the 18th. together with seven
teen horses and thirteen head of cattle.
This is the third year in succession that
Mr.. Griffith has lost his barn and stock by
fire.
THE Queen of the Hawaiian Kingdom
arrived at San Francisco on the Goth, en-
| route to Europe.
Six more plotters against the life of the
Gar have been sentenced to death.
The Northwestern Lumber Manufacture
ers' Association was in session at Mime
apolis on the Goth.
LIEUTENANT JOHN W. DANENHowER, of
Arctic fame, committed suicide at the Ma
val Academy, Annapolis, Md, on the Goth.
d. 81. BURDETT, ranchman, was killed
at Seven Rivers, N. NJ, on the Goth, by
| two cowboys, named Finnessy and Ems
| ley.
LORD SALISBURY, in his Primrose speech
on the Goth, was very severe in his
| criticism of Gladstone's course on the
Irish Crimes bill and his former home
| rule record.
CHARLES p YoUNa, of New York City,
has been appointed secretary of the
| Pacific Railway Investigating Commits
sion.
| THE Colonial Parliament of Newfound-
land only defeated prohibition of liquor
| by one vote.
ALF. CUNNINGHAM, one of the murderers
| of Captain Six-Killer in the Indian Terri
| tory, has been caught and landed in jail.
A DISPATCH, which is looked upon at
| Washington as s'feeler," has been sent
| by Lord Salisbury to the American
| Government concerning Canadian fish
cries.
| Mr.. BIGGAR proposes to sue the London
| Times for libel in connection with the al
| legged Parnell letter and kindred publica-
| tions, thus bringing the question of gen.
| uineness of the letter before the courts.
ATToRNEY-GENERAL GARLAND has reaf-
firmed his former opinion that the Secre-
tary of the Treasury does not possess the
power of remission in the case of the
American schooner San Diego, seized for
taking seals at the Alaska seal islands in
violation of law.
THE jury in the case ofNapoleon B. Met
calfe, for the killing of Miss Frances Fox
at Middleton, Conn, last January, re-
turned a verdict of acquittal on the Goth,
on the ground of insanity. He was Or
dered to be confined for twenty years in
the State Hospital for the Insane by Judge
Torrance.
THE elevator owned by the Northwest
ern Elevator Company of Minneapolis,
located at Wilmar, Mimi, was burned on
the Goth. Twenty thousand bushels of
wheat were destroyed; loss about S22, 900.
FIFTYFoUR German priests of New
York have written to Archbishop Corri-
gan, taking sides with him against Henry
George and Rev. Dr. McGlynn.
The sixteenth annual meeting of the
Woman's Baptist Foreign Missionary So
ciety of the Middle and Eastern States
convened in Pitts burgh, Pa, on the Goth,
| five hundred delegates being present.
DIR. HOSEA BALLoU EATON died at Rock
port, Me-, on the night of the 10Th, from
| blood-poisoning, contracted five years ago
while engaged in his professional duties.
He was president Of the Maine Homeo-
pathic Society and vice-president of the
American Institute of Homeopathy.
DR.. WARREN, of Boston, is at Rome,
ing an American institute of Roman his
tory and archaeology, toward founding
which, he says, an American lady has
contributed $4,000.
THEY are killing cattle again in Chicago
for pleuro-pneumonia.
GERMAN emigration decreased last year
%, ,OOO
BENJAMIN SIssoN, of Sisson vile, WA,
killed his wife on the 21st with hatchet
LIEUTENANT DANENHowER's remains
were shipped from Annapolis to Wash
ington on the 21st.
LAND COMMISSIONER SPARKS has ordered
resurvey of the Las Vegas land grant in
New Mexico.
COLONEL MORE, ConsulGeneral to the
City of Mexico, leaves for his post of duty
on the 25th.
A HEAVY gold-brick swindle is said to
have been successfully worked on a
wealthy gentleman of New York.
GEORGE MILLER, of New York, deter
mined on suicide, cut his wrists open,
stabbed himself in the breast, and
jumped down two stories on the 21st, fin
ally succeeding in killing himself.
A SERVANT girl, Jennie Bowman, was
beaten to death in her employers resi-
dence at Louisville, KY, on the night of
the Goth, by unknown men.
REPRESENTATIVES of the transcontinent-
al lines, sugar refners, San Fra ncisco
Board of Trade and other interests were
heard by the Interstate Commerce Com
mission on the 21st.
A FRENCH official has been decoyed into
German territory and arrested by German
police, charged with membership in the
French Patriotic League. Great excite
ment is reported to exist in Alsace-Lor-
raine over the affair. 1t has also created
a profound sensation in Paris.
THE new ecclesiastical bill was debated
in the German Reichstag on the 21st, and
Prince Bismarck took amin ated part in the
discussion.
MAJOR JOHN E. BLAINE, paymaster in
the United States army and brother of
James G. Blaine, died on the 21st at Hot
Springs, Ark.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL sailed from Bos-
ton on the 21st for Europe on the steamer
Pavonia. 1t is understood that he declines
to be candidate for overseer of Harvard
University, for which he has been nomi-
mated.
THE United States authorities are after
T. l. Gardner, of Chicago and Cincinnati,
for sending bogus publications through
the mails.
THE Lord Mayor of Dublin has called a
meeting for the purpose of taking steps
toward the erection of a national memo
rial to Mr.. Glad stone.
BENZ. ZIMMERMAN strayed away from
home in Reading, Pa, seventeen years
ago. On the 21st' he returned and found
his wife, who believed him dead, living
with q second husband. 1t is said he will
find Mrs. Zimmerman willing to be re-
claimed.
THE weavers Of the Hamilto on mills at
Amesbury, Mass. are still out. The
question of an increase of wages has
been referred to the board of directors.
Unless the trouble is settled at once a
thousand persons will be thrown out of
work
INDICATIONS accumulate that there will
be no extra SESSION of Congress, and that
the President will visit St I,ouis in the